Born in Paris on 10 July 1928, Bernard Buffet was a painter, lithographer, and etcher who studied at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts and gained early critical acclaim and fortune through his prolific output – he painted more than 8,000 works in his lifetime – and immediately recognizable stylistic manner. Active during a time when abstraction was the predominant artistic style, Buffet defended representational art and was an active member of the anti-abstraction group L’homme Témoin (The Witness-Man).

Featuring portraiture, townscapes, still lifes, and historical and religious subjects, Buffet’s oeuvre is primarily graphic, with spiky, angular and elongated forms rendered in a somber color palette. This stylistic mode gives his work an austere and melancholic tone that has been interpreted as a representation of the emotional state of the post-war generation. Buffet has had dozens of international exhibitions and was awarded a number of prestigious honors, including being made an Officer of the Légion d’Honneur in 1973 and being inducted into the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1974. Unfortunately, the end of his life was marked by a prolonged battle with Parkinson’s disease, which resulted in the artist committing suicide at the age of 71 on 4 Oไctober 1999.

The work of Buffet has remained consistently popular, and his paintings have come to be housed in some of the most notable museums around the world, including the , London, , New York, and a d💖edicated collection at the Bernard Buffet Museum in Japan. No doubt a result of his iconic style and continuous desirability, according to Sotheby’s Mei Moses the average com😼pound annual return for Bernard Buffet is 9.9%, with 85.2% of works increasing in value.

168开奖官方开奖网站查询:The top t💞hree auction prices for Buffet are:

· £1 million ($1.5 million) for Les Clown Musiciens, Le Saxophoniste. 1991. Christie's London. 22 June 2016.

· $996,300 for La Tour Eiffel. 1955. Matsart🎀 Auctioneers and Appraisers. 16🦄 February 2016.

· $797,500 for Scene De Rue. 1956. Sotheby's New York. 26 February 1990.